Spiritual Care

We are a Mennonite Christian hospital committed to caring for the whole person – spirit, mind and body. A hospital stay often brings out our need for spiritual care. We seek to meet your religious and spiritual needs respecting your faith background or beliefs.

Chaplains
Chaplains are trained to minister to the unique and diverse spiritual and religious needs of patients, family, friends and staff. You may ask a chaplain to:

• be with you in a supportive, caring manner
• pray with you
• arrange for sacramental ministry or other meaningful rituals
• provide you with a Bible or other spiritual readings
• help connect you with your own clergy or religious leaders
• help you with decisions (eg. advanced care planning, etc.)
• help you come to terms with a difficult diagnosis
• be with you when somebody is dying
• support staff in stressful times

• During evenings, weekends and statutory holidays, Chaplains are on-call. You may ask your nurse to page a Chaplain.
• Patients and family are encouraged to notify the patient’s own clergy and invite their visit during the hospital stay.
• You can visit us in our offices on the main floor next to the Chapel or main elevators.

The Chapel
The Chapel is on the main floor and is open 24 hours a day to provide a peaceful retreat from the busyness of the hospital.

Chapel Services

• Wednesdays 11:00-11:30 a.m. Interdenominational Service
• Fourth Thursday of the month (occasionally on Sunday) 11:00-11:30 a.m. Roman Catholic Mass

Please notify your nurse on the day of the worship service if you wish to attend and if you need someone to escort you to the Chapel.

Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Catholic lay visitors come weekly to bring communion.

Spiritual Care in Oncology
If you are a patient in oncology, you may request a visit from a Chaplain by asking your nurse to contact us.

Our Facilitator of Bereavement Care offers grief support to family and friends who have lost a loved one due to cancer.

This includes:

• telephone counselling
• grief literature
• support groups
• memorial services

Our Mennonite Christian Faith

“True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant. It clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all people.”

– Menno Simons (1496-1561)

Concordia Hospital Spiritual Care Services when calling from outside the Hospital

661-7149 - Manager, Spiritual Care Concordia Hospital

661-7402 - Chaplain, Concordia Hospital

661-7402 - Facilitator of Bereavement Care, Concordia Hospital, Oncology

661-7309 - Chaplain, Concordia Place

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